Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He also writes screenplays and rock musicals.
Like the original novel, the opera, opening Sunday, pays homage to the postwar fascination with superheroes that transcend the shortcomings of fate and circumstance.
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His choice of subjects, often sourced from journalism, take the candid force of a well-placed camera shot and amplify it to almost hyper dramatic effect.
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The piece requires him to keep perfectly still for eight hours a day while kneeling on a prayer bench, with no allowance for breaks of any kind.
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Aside from the blockbusters of note, several galleries this summer are addressing both human figures and the human condition in a pointedly Berlin way.
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His male antiheroes are cranky, stubborn, and beleaguered, sandwiched amid the absurdities of life, the depredations of aging, and black existential angst.
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The items, compiled in a new book marking the institute’s centenary, are intimate, deeply interesting, occasionally appalling, and more than a little melancholy.
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The compulsively readable semi-autobiographical novel features monologues, metaphysical asides, raunchy jokes, and pure hilarious bluster — and none of it is verifiable.
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Nothing is ever as pretty as it seems.
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Plus, nearby exhibitions by Picabia and Rauschenberg attest to New York City’s astonishing cultural richness.
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The intent of the artist, the framing of the image, and the hand holding the brush are the biggest determinants of what is ‘seen.’
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If a murdered mobster was slumped and bleeding over his linguine, the pioneering crime scene photographer was there minutes later, camera in hand.
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Condo has long been adept at taking the visual vocabulary of high modernism and straining them, violently or hilariously, through a contemporary lens.
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